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Exclamation Man gets fired from Mercedes due to a Motorsport chat forum argument...

http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,20184908-5006010,00.html

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Chat site cat fight
By Stephen Corby

August 20, 2006 12:00

A SYDNEY man lost his job after an argument about domestic cats in a web chat room drew a vicious response from an incensed lawyer.

Car salesman Dave Conole logged on to a motorsport forum to talk about rallying but, within hours, was locked in a flaming war over the malevolence of moggies that ended up costing him his job.
Be very careful who you argue with on a car forum...

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Cats are evil.



Well, not all of them.
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That lawyer needs his ass kicked.
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gee, I wonder why lawyers are hated so much?
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Sounds like the (ex-)salesman has the moral high ground. I think the lawyer has a bit of an insecurity problem.

I keep cats too - so what?

And my opinion of Mercedes-Benz just went down a few notches as well. Forget buying anything from them in a while. A company that'd FIRE someone over something like this? Sheesh.
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I think the salesman was on probation with Mercedes and fired because he used the net for chatting at work... Still, the lawyer shouldn't have pursued it that far... after all, it's a forum argument!
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hmmmm.....and he was doing this at work......
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That lawyer needs his ass kicked.
That Lawyer? I think they all need it.

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